Michele Faioli

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About Michele Faioli

Michele Faioli is an Associate Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (tenured as full professor - abilitazione a professore ordinario). He teaches courses in the areas of labor relations and comparative/EU labor law, including industrial relations, social security, tech law. Faioli's comparative research mainly looks at collective bargaining impact on labor relations, AI and robots operating at workplace level. As Visiting Fellow at the ILR School of Cornell University and at the Fordham Law School he carried out investigations on international labor rights, global trade and unions strategies. At the CRILDA research center's Laboratory on the Equivalence of National Collective Bargaining Agreements (Laboratorio sull'Equivalenza dei CCNL), Michele Faioli developed the research methodology and oversees comparative investigations into national and decentralized collective bargaining. This work is also a collaborative effort with ANAC and CONSIP. Michele Faioli has written widely on tech and labor law (see his book,"Mansioni e macchina intelligente", Giappichelli, 2018), undeclared work, social security, pension funds and other topics for a variety of law reviews and journals. After his appointment to the CNEL (Consiglio Nazionale dell'Economia e del Lavoro) in 2018, he has conducted investigations also on the possible social applications of blockchain to the EU labor market and social security systems. Prof. Faioli chairs the SERI - Scuola Europea di Relazioni Industriali. He directs the EUROFOUND Italian Observatory.